Earth Day. Was 1977 all that Different?

It's a wonder the sun still comes up.  The first Earth Day was in 1977.

Back then is was litter, Give a Hoot, acid rain, save the Whales, No Nukes & the coming Ice Age.

Lakes were cleaned, toxic soil removed and reasonable legislation initiated.

Back then it was positive and effective.  All very positive.  

Or Was it?

"We Are the Gods Now - I haven't been struck down. I take that to mean I'm right."

"My Name is Peter Weyland And If You'll Indulge Me, I'd Like to Change the World"

Technology advancements:

• 100,000, BC: Stone tools.
• 4,000, BC: The wheel.
• 800, BC: Sundial.
• 9th century, AD: Gunpowder. Bit of a game-changer, that one.
• 1441: The printing press -- only slightly less impactful.
• 19th century: Steam engine. Railway. Eureka! The light bulb!!
• 20th century: The automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, Internet.
• 21st century: Biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission, and M-theory -- and that was just the first decade.

"We wield incredible power -- the power to transform, to destroy and to create again. The question, of course, before us is, "What the hell are we supposed to do with this power?" Or, more importantly, one should ask, 

"What are we allowed to do with this power?

Work From Anywhere Movement Moves Forward

The commercial real estate establishment is fighting for its life, literally. Publishing slanted studies as evidence that "it is time to get back to work".

Dozens of articles, and interviews projected in an attempt to make us not believe our eyes.  The buildings are empty.

There will be more.